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Christina Applegate Returns as the 2009 Lee National Denim Day Ambassador

Emmy Award-winning actress Christina Applegate, star of ABC's hit sitcom Samantha Who?, returns as the 2009 ambassador for Lee National Denim Day, one of the country's largest single-day fundraisers for breast cancer, benefiting the Women's Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF).

Currently on newsstands on the cover of People Magazine's 'Most Beautiful' issue, Applegate, who was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2008, will appear in a new public service campaign that encourages people to wear their jeans on Friday, October 2, in exchange for a $5 donation to support crucial breast cancer research being funded by the Women's Cancer Programs. She is the first ambassador to return for a second time and the first to be a breast cancer survivor.

7 Days Before "Xtreme Entrepreneurs: Houston" 2005 Memorial Day Weekend Pilot Shooting

Xtreme Entrepreneurs is set to shoot a pilot. Many people are stuck in poverty/destitution or living "paycheck to paycheck," working one or more jobs, in serious debt, desperately struggling to make it financially and unable to break through the obstacles that prevent their entrepreneurial success.

In each show, a desperate individual undergoes an extreme personal and professional makeover, coached by a team of business and personal coaches, experts, and advisors. The goal of the show is for each entrepreneur to overcome economic and other obstacles blocking their entrepreneurial success, achieve personal happiness and inspire audiences, as they take their respective businesses to the next level, market their goods and services, become interdependent, self-sustaining, benefit the economy and create additional jobs.

John Preston Trades Rifle for Guitar, Signs with Real2Reel Records

TheWebNewsroom.com - Preston became a Marine four years ago with his patriotism and his favorite guitar. He came out with the same patriotism, the same guitar, a new web site http://www.JohnPreston.us , and a two-year, two-album recording contract with Real2Reel Records http://www.real2reelrecords.com .

The offer came from Real2Reel Records after Preston and buddy Lance Cpl. Nick Hoffmann recorded the video of Good, Good America," a song Preston wrote after hearing the phrase chanted over and over by a group of Iraqi girls as his unit opened a new school. The video, made with borrowed cameras, depicts images of the war in Iraq interspersed with Preston performing the song acoustically. A friend put up the web site, complete with the original video which people can still view for free, and word of Good, Good America" quickly began to spread -- first through the soldiers, their family and friends, and then the media.

Teens are Not Prepared to Work, says Teens4Hire.org; It's the Impetus for Their New Job Readiness and Certification Program 'Ready for the Workplace'

In direct response to comments from companies reluctant to hire teens for summer and part-time jobs, Teens4Hire.org launches Ready for the Workplace™, an online job readiness and certification program for teens aged 14-19. The program is designed to improve the employability and success of teens in the workplace.

"Companies complain to us that teens are not prepared, ready or even truly willing to work," says Renee Ward, founder of Teens4Hire.org, a web site devoted to helping teens land jobs. "They say teens lack the right attitude, skills and work ethic which makes the company reluctant to hire a teenager especially a minor teen."

Eric Hinkle Joins iMagicLab DealerCRM Management Team

Owings Mills, MD (PRWEB) March 27, 2008 -– iMagicLab, the nation’s fastest growing CRM, Internet sales 1b70 and Inventory software system for automobile dealers, is pleased to announce that Eric Hinkle has joined the firm as its new Vice President of Inventory Services.

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Hinkle comes to iMagicLab to solidify the firm's already strong automobile dealer inventory solutions and to create an "on the lot" services unit. Hinkle will report directly to iMagicLab CEO Richard Keith Latman and be based out of the firm's new Kansas City office.

After attending Ottawa University and The University of Kansas School of Business, Hinkle learned management and leadership by working as an Account Manager and Regional Vice President with Auto Trader Publishing and AutoTrader.com; divisions of Cox Communications.

Spherexx.com Signs New Contracts with Five Leading Property Management Companies

Spherexx.com has signed contracts with five property management industry leaders: Tarragon Corporation, ZOM Residential Services, Inc., HH Hunt Properties, Perry Reid Properties and Jersey Central Management.

"GotNoVacancy.com has been effective in saving our leasing staff valuable time by bringing qualified prospects to our front doors," states Jeremy Brown, Marketing Coordinator for ZOM Residential Services, Inc.

Tulsa based Spherexx.com devotes a division of their company to serving the online and marketing needs of the property management industry. GotNoVacancy.com is Spherexx.com's prospecting, leads management, and closing tool developed with the apartment management industry in mind. "Our statistics show that there was a 95% increase between 2005 and 2006 of people viewing apartment availability online; and of those, nearly 60% of all online reservations occurred outside of traditional leasing office hours. Furthermore, 50% of all apartment internet leads are ignored. We are committed to keeping our clients informed and well equipped to successfully respond to the ever increasing demand for web based branding and customer satisfaction."

Create and Share Your Own Holiday Web Pages

Web design firm Scott Design Inc. has developed a free holiday web page maker called Special Delivery that allows users to create custom web pages as an alternative to buying, writing, and mailing traditional holiday cards.

Special Delivery goes far beyond typical e-cards, allowing users to add their own photos and personalized messages along with beautiful backgrounds, animations, and even music--and then share with friends and family.

And it's not only for the holidays--users can send online birthday wishes, design party invitations, share news and photos with friends, and post their creations on their Facebook and MySpace pages.

Portrait Extends Agreements with Fiserv to Deliver Additional Aperio Modules

Portrait announced today it has added Portrait Campaign Manager and Portrait Customer Analytics to its agreement with Fiserv, the leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, to provide a new and expanded platform in the marketplace.

Fiserv adopted Portrait Foundation to build its Aperio suite of customer interaction applications for retail banking providing financial institutions with a customer centric service and sales platform. With the extension to the agreement, Fiserv is placing a major emphasis on their Aperio suite of products, reflecting its confidence in, and commitment to, Portrait technology.

Juniper Research Forecasts Annual Africa & Middle East Mobile Revenues of $107 Billion by 2013, Driven by Data Service Growth

Operator-billed service revenues across the Africa & Middle East region are expected to rise to more than $107 billion in 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

The report found that growth would be driven by mobile data services, fuelled by the greater availability and wider variety of rich-media content coupled with lower browsing costs. However, it noted that regional operator-billed voice revenues were likely to peak in 2011 and would subsequently fall away due to increasingly competitive pricing in that sector.

New Employee Wellness Program Helps Human Resources, Insurance Agencies, Corporations & Hospital Employees Fight Obesity

VirtualFitnessCoach - an interactive wellness fitness program that fights obesity by giving employees daily personal guidance and feedback from their own virtual trainer - has launched at www.VirtualFitnessCoach.com/health. The Web site provides companies, health insurance agencies and hospitals with a complete health and wellness program for employees that fights obesity resulting in weight loss, healthier nutrition, reduced stress and increased employee well being.

A study in the journal Health Affairs noted that: "Per person healthcare spending for obese adults is 56 percent higher than for normal-weight adults. Over 15 years, the additional costs incurred by obese adults with private health insurance versus normal-weight adults increased from $272 to $1,244 per person per year."

China's Gold Rush Triggers Skyrocketing Gold Prices Reports Kevin DeMeritt of Gold Central

China is on course to overtake India as the world's largest consumer of gold jewelry, according to Kevin DeMeritt of Lear Financial Inc., the parent company of Gold Central, one of the top gold coin companies in the U.S.

Gold jewelry demand in China, the world's fastest-growing major economy, rose 13 percent in the first quarter and investment demand rose 36 percent, according to Lear Financial, Inc., who has been monitoring the Chinese gold market and advises investors to invest in American gold coins now before the price increases due to foreign interest.

Using NLP to Improve Professional, Technical and Business Training at The Financial Training Company

FTC is a leading provider of professional qualifications and business training in the UK and Asia. FTC became part of Kaplan, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company in 2003. It has achieved a remarkable success rate for preparing students, over 30,000 a year for exams such as the AAT, ACA, ACCA and CIMA including tax qualification programs, training for investment professionals such as CFA®, CPD training and specialist corporate and government training.

The company is continually updating courses taking into account latest changes in syllabus, legislation, regulation, technologies, and practice as well as incorporating new approaches to satisfy continued professional development. This makes for ‘world class training,’ combining professional, technical, emotional and personal competencies.

Factiva Introduces Factiva SalesWorks for Salesforce.com’s AppExchange

Factiva®, a Dow Jones and Reuters Company, and salesforce.com, the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced Factiva SalesWorks for salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Built on the AppExchange on-demand platform, Factiva SalesWorks for AppExchange is immediately available for test drive and deployment at www.appexchange.com, in conjunction with the Salesforce Winter ’06 release.

Factiva SalesWorks for AppExchange provides sales professionals with timely and critical company and executive information and news about prospects and customers, directly within their salesforce.com implementation. Salesforce.com subscribers can view a snapshot of a particular company or executive, allowing them quickly to identify and qualify prospects with in-depth company information, executive details, relevant competitor analysis, and highly targeted news coverage.

BRB Publications Releases New Mini Courses for Online Safe Hiring and Pre-Employment Screening Training

BRB Publications (BRB), the nation’s premier publisher of sourcebooks used for locating public records, announced it released a new series of mini-courses for the BRB Safe Hiring Certification Training -- the first and only online educational and professional development courses in safe hiring and employment screening background checks.

The four new modules enable users to take and complete smaller installments of the 30-hour intensive course also offered by BRB.

The online course is the first in-depth training and education opportunity aimed at employers, human resource and security professionals, background screeners and anyone responsible for risk management and due diligence in hiring. The full 30-hour course contains 21 self-paced lessons, including a 190-page workbook and study guide and over 300 quiz questions. Each mini-course also includes a workbook and quiz questions. Successful completion of a course leads to a Certificate of Completion, marking a significant professional accomplishment.

"Our Planet" Show to Feature New Series, "Fueling the Future"

The producers of "Our Planet" are pleased to announce a special series, Fueling the Future, focusing on alternative and sustainable energy sources that will power the advanced technologies of tomorrow. The show marries an unrivaled host, Greg Gumbel, with a team of award-winning producers, and provides viewers new information that will impact their lives.

Energy is the vital force powering business, manufacturing, and the transportation of goods and services to serve the American and world economies. Energy supply and demand plays an increasingly crucial role in our national security and the economic prosperity of our nation.

Eurotech Announces New Mobile Access Router DuraMAR® 2150

Eurotech announces the new DuraMAR® 2150 series Mobile Access Router, an integrated rugged Mobile IP router designed for net-centric operation in vehicles installations such as on trains, buses and metros. Leveraging Cisco Systems' industry standard IOS® software and 3200 series mobile access routing (MAR) technology and Eurotech embedded Linux wireless communication controller, the DuraMAR router enables prime contractors and systems integrators to achieve mobile communications-on-the-move (COTM) and a wide range of new in-vehicle networking applications, from wireless Internet access to Voice over IP (VoIP), passenger WiFi services to streaming video surveillance and smart vehicle diagnostic/maintenance.

WHO Criticized for Withholding Information Regarding Human to Human Transmission of Avian Bird Flu

Avian Flu Talk recently announced the launch of its highly successful H5N1 bird flu discussion forum. The new forum is growing rapidly each day as it is now approaching 400 members in the last 90 days.

The site recently created a new forum that is dedicated to discussing commentaries issued by leading expert of infectious diseases, Dr. Henry Niman, founder of the website Recombinomics.com. This new forum has gained a lot attention since Dr. Niman recently released commentaries warning that human to human transmission has now become more efficient and the WHO’s failure to provide important information is cause for concern.

“H5N1 is expanding its geographical reach via migratory birds and expanding its host range via acquisition of genetic changes by recombining its genetic information with other flu viruses,” said Dr. Henry Niman of Recombinomics, Inc.

“The outbreaks in Turkey are expanding into neighboring countries, but this region lacks transparency. The WHO is withholding important information regarding onset dates and relationships between infected people. The data indicate H5N1 transmission to humans is becoming more efficient, and these developments are not being covered well in the popular media,” Dr. Henry Niman said.

GTD Signs Strategic Business Alliance With International Firm

Mark A. Stansberry, Chairman of The GTD Group, and Charlie Black, Chairman of BKSH & Associates, announced today that they have signed a Strategic Business Alliance.

BKSH & Associates is a Burson-Marsteller Company with decades of experience in public affairs and government relations. Through the association with BKSH Europe and the Burson-Marsteller Public Affairs Practice, BKSH can call on more than 2,000 professionals around the world. BKSH has offices in Washington, D.C., Brussels, and London. Burson-Marsteller has offices around the world including Beijing.

Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Can Earn Money While Downsizing

According to the Center for Responsible Learning (www.responsiblelending.org), "Foreclosures, particularly on subprime home loans, continue to rise. We project that subprime mortgages made in recent years will ultimately result in the loss of a home for 2.2 million families."

As a result, homeowners facing foreclosure may need to downsize to an apartment or smaller home while also facing a financial crunch. Many turn to eBay and other auction websites to sell furniture and other large items to potential buyers around the country, which means those items need to be shipped long distance.